Literary Analysis Vocabulary

the author’s reason for writing (to entertain, persuade, inform, etc.)

• explicit

• implicit

• author's purpose

• text evidence

precisely and clearly expressed, stated directly

• implicit

• mood

• tone

• explicit

implied but not stated directly

• inciting incident

• implicit

• limited POV

• omniscient POV

the first event in which the conflict becomes apparent

• tone

• explicit

• inciting incident

• mood

But we loved with a love that was more than love--
I and my Annabel Lee--
With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me
What does the word SERAPHS mean in the text above?

• Messengers

• Rulers

• Angels

• Birds

In the sentence "My sisters voice wafts over the kitchen, past the smell of hair and oil and flame..." wafts most likely means _​ .​ ​ (a)  

• floats

• creates

• shouts

• smells

• echoes

[The Grand Canyon] is the land of music. The river thunders in a perpetual roar, swelling in floors of music when the storm gods play upon the rocks and fading away in soft and low murmurs when the infinite blue of heaven is unveiled. With the melody of the great tide rising and falling, swelling and vanishing forever, other melodies are heard in the gorges of the lateral canyons, while the waters plunge in the rapids among the rocks or leap in great cataracts.-"The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth" by John Wesley PowellBased on the passage, what is the most likely meaning of the word "sublime" from the title?

• jaded and tedious

• ordinary

• impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power

• to improve or refine

a third person narrator who describes the action from the perspective of only one of the characters

• limited POV

• omniscient POV

• text evidence

• tone

the emotional response of the reader to the tone of the text

• text evidence

• implicit

• tone

• mood

a third person narrator who knows and can reveal everything about all the characters and events

• implicit

• explicit

• omniscient POV

• limited POV